When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.

What you think about the most drives your reality; control your thoughts to manage your reality.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that.